With increasing linkage within value chains, the IT systems of different companies are also being connected with each other. This enables the integration of services within the movement of Industry 4.0 in order to improve the quality and performance of the processes. Enterprise architecture models form the basis for this with a better buisness IT-alignment. However, the heterogeneity of the modeling frameworks and description languages makes a concatenation considerably difficult, especially differences in syntax, semantic and relations. Therefore, this paper presents a transformation engine to convert enterprise architecture models between several languages. We developed the first generic translation approach that is free of specific meta-modeling, which is flexible adaptable to arbitrary modeling languages. The transformation process is defined by various pattern matching techniques using a rule-based description language. It uses set theory and first-order logic for an intuitive description as a basis. The concept is practical evaluated using an example in the area of a large German IT-service provider. Anyhow, the approach is applicable between a wide range of enterprise architecture frameworks.

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企业架构模型转换引擎

随着价值链内的联系越来越紧密，不同公司的 IT 系统也正在相互连接。这使得工业 4.0 运动中的服务能够集成，以提高流程的质量和性能。企业架构模型形成了更好的业务 IT 一致性的基础。然而，建模框架和描述语言的异质性使得连接相当困难，尤其是在语法、语义和关系方面的差异。因此，本文提出了一种转换引擎，用于在多种语言之间转换企业架构模型。我们开发了第一个没有特定元建模的通用翻译方法，它可以灵活地适应任意建模语言。转换过程由使用基于规则的描述语言的各种模式匹配技术定义。它使用集合论和一阶逻辑作为直观描述的基础。使用德国大型 IT 服务提供商领域的示例对该概念进行了实际评估。无论如何，该方法适用于广泛的企业架构框架。